The Jungle

No 1906 book-club issue is documented. The reprint traps are Sinclair's own four later self-published editions (1920, 1935, 1942 and 1945), any of which can be mistaken for an "author's edition" first given that the Jungle Publishing Co. first is itself author-published, plus the ubiquitous later trade reprints. The "1" in the copyright-page date is the working check: broken or battered type means a later state, not the first printing. Absence of the pictorial olive-green cloth, or a title leaf that is neither integral (Sustainer's) nor correctly tipped-in (Doubleday, Page), likewise rules out the first.